Cluster Headaches: Description

Brief overview Symptoms: Unilateral, severe headache, boring or cutting pain especially behind the eye, attack duration 15 to 180 minutes, restlessness and urge to move; watery, red eye, swollen or drooping eyelid, runny nose, sweating in the forehead area or face, constricted pupil, sunken eyeball Causes: Not clear, probably misregulated biological rhythms (such as diurnal … Cluster Headaches: Description

Headaches in the forehead area

Introduction Headache in the forehead is a symptom that is caused by irritation of pain-sensitive structures in the head, such as the meninges, cranial nerves or blood vessels. Headaches in the forehead are usually an expression of overload or stress and do not require any special therapy. In some cases, however, forehead headaches may be … Headaches in the forehead area

Therapy | Headaches in the forehead area

Therapy Various conservative, and more rarely surgical, procedures are used to treat headaches in the forehead. An important part of conservative therapy involves avoiding so-called trigger factors, i.e. factors that can trigger or aggravate forehead pain in the affected person. Typical trigger factors for forehead pain are stress, lack of sleep, stimulants such as nicotine … Therapy | Headaches in the forehead area